Half term declutter

I have the week off work and I am going to spend some of it decluttering the house.

spends first morning watching Anthea Turner's Perfect Housewife DVD

We've already done the garage, conservatory, lounge and dining room (over the past 6 weeks) but still have all the bedrooms, bathroom and kitchen to do. Plus I may do a few more bits in the rooms we've done depending on how ruthless I feel!

I am hoping to do this too although we are half through the first day and I have - sat by the fire, read the paper, had some lunch, more logs on the fire, tired after lunch, about to retire back to the paper by the fire and listen to The Archers .

I keep saying I will venture upstairs with my bin liners and marigolds when I've finished whichever cup of tea is on the go at the current time .

Oh I'm in. Today I have decluttered and organised the dd's bedroom. Done toys, clothes and books. Just need to hoover it and clean the window and that room is done. It was a mammoth task so am pleased to have it done in one day. Have a long list to do for the rest of the week. Its not just decluttering but a lot of stuff that I cant seem to get done in a normal working week.

My agreement with the 3dc is that if they help and work hard in the mornings we can do something nice and fun in the afternoons so win win all round. We are having friends round for tea but I have no food in so go to go shopping first! Bah.

I started decluttering the attic in the xmas holidays... so now I need to declutter our spare room as that's where most of it ended up! I find it really difficult to get rid of anything, I always think we'll need it at some point or am emotionally attached to it

I'm in I seem to spend my whole life decluttering though, it's depressing how quickly the house fills up.

Yesterday I did 2 drawers in the study and put 3 photos in frames that had just been sat on a drawer. I think I'll set a mini challenge to sort out photos and keepsakes, as I got 2 boxes down from the loft recently and could do with sorting through the rest and then putting it all back up there.

I have loads of books to go to the CS which have been under my bed since my pre-Xmas declutter.

Does anyone use storage jars for things like rice, sugar and flour, and if you do what do when you buy top ups .I start with everything in jars and then then it's almost time to top up but there wasn't enough space in the jar so I end up with half a packet sitting around etc .

Silly first world problem but would rally like my cupboards to be better organised.